---------------------“In the end we were playing on unplugged electric guitars, so we said, let’s just give it up.”

Michael also had aspirations to be a lawyer, an architect or a war journalist when he was younger, but as soon as he started acting – first in a surreal production written by his drama teacher when he was 17, then directing his own production of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ - he knew it was what he wanted to focus his career on.

He added: “Once I thought perhaps I could be quite good, I committed to it 100 per cent, it was my one and only priority.”